Abstract: A method includes periodically inserting another AM into a data stream (DS) to obtain a second DS, and the first data stream includes a first alignment marker (AM); sending the second DS through physical lanes (PLs), where a quantity of the PLs is not equal to 2n, where the second AM's insertion period and each second AM's size is based on condition 1 or 2, where condition 1 is the quantity of the PLs, where condition 2 is condition 1 and a ratio of the second DS's rate to the first DS's rate, the second AM's insertion period and each second AM's size is an integer multiple of the quantity of the PLs, and where the second DS's rate is not less than the first DS's rate, and traffic per unit time corresponding to the rate of the second DS is an integer multiple of the quantity of the PLs.

Abstract: Systems and methods for zero-copy forwarding for network function virtualization (NFV). An example method comprises: receiving, by a supervisor of a host computer system, a definition of a packet filter originated by a virtual execution environment running on the host computer system; responsive to validating the packet filter, associating the packet filter with a vNIC of the virtual execution environment; receiving, by the supervisor, a network packet originated by the vNIC; and responsive to matching the network packet to a network connection specified by the packet filter, causing the packet filter to forward the network packet via the network connection.

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reduced sensing schemes to facilitate sidelink transmissions.

Abstract: Various arrangements for providing real-time simulated cellular network feedback are detailed herein. A network performance simulator can analyze a production hybrid cellular network. Based on the analysis, a cloud-based cellular network test environment can be constructed. Cellular network simulations can then be performed using the constructed cloud-based cellular network test environment. At some time in the future, a service request from a client may be received. The service request is analyzed using the results of the cellular network simulations to determine feedback of how the production cellular network is expected to perform. The performance feedback can be provided to the cellular network client.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for random access procedure. A method at a terminal device comprises receiving information of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource allocation mode from a network node. The PUSCH resource allocation mode includes at least one of interlace or non-interlace. The method further comprises transmitting a first message including a random access preamble and payload to the network node. The payload is transmitted on a PUSCH based on the PUSCH resource allocation mode.

Abstract: Devices and techniques for determining a transmission time interval (TTI) duration and/or varying the TTI duration are contemplated. The TTI duration may be varied based on one or more of: the timing a transmission, the amount of data available for transmission, or the type of data to be transmitted. The TTI duration may be for one or more of: the Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH), the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), and/or the Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH). One or more different TTI durations may be achieved by modifying OFDM symbols per TTI and/or symbol duration (e.g., subcarrier spacing). One or more variable time-slot boundaries are contemplated. TTI duration per set of subcarriers is contemplated. One or more timing rules to deal with different processing time(s) are contemplated.

Abstract: An O-RAN distributed unit (O-DU) receives, from an intermediate device provided on a fronthaul, processing time information indicating a processing time in the intermediate device. The O-DU decides capability information set for the intermediate device based on at least the processing time information and transmits the decided capability information to the intermediate device.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an antenna, a communication module connected to the antenna, and a processor connected to the communication module, wherein the processor can confirm a frequency band supportable by the electronic device, receive, from a base station, system information including information about a peripheral cell, determine whether the peripheral cell is either an unlicensed cell or a non-terrestrial cell on the basis of the confirmed frequency band and/or the received system information, determine the priority of a frequency, which is the reference for cell selection, on the basis of at least one from among the confirmed frequency band, the received system information, and the type of determined cell, and select a cell according to the determined priority of the frequency.

Abstract: Various embodiments herein describe solutions to issues in beam switching for intra-band non-contiguous carrier aggregation. For example, the UE may interrupt downlink communication on one or more component carriers when the UE switches the receive beam with intra-band non-contiguous carrier aggregation. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: Various arrangements for performing grant-free uplink transmissions are presented herein. A user equipment (UE) can determine data that is to be transmitted using a grant-free uplink transmission to a base station of a cellular network. Three or more grant-free transmission blocks may be selected by the UE. The same data payload may be transmitted on each grant-free transmission block. The first grant-free transmission block can indicate the end of a chain of linked grant-free transmissions and have a pointer that references the second grant-free transmission block. The second grant-free transmission can include pointers that refer to the first grant-free transmission block and a third grant-free transmission block.

Abstract: A data transmission method and a terminal device are provided. The method includes if a terminal device determines, according to first configuration information, to perform a first type of transmission on a target transmission resource, and determines, according to second configuration information, to perform a second type of transmission on the target transmission resource, the terminal device determines whether the first type of transmission or the second type of transmission is a target type of transmission according to a first preset rule. The first type of transmission is sidelink transmission between the terminal device and another terminal device, and the second type of transmission is uplink transmission or downlink transmission between the terminal device and a network device.

Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more parameters indicating a plurality of sidelink carriers, a discontinuous transmission (DTX) threshold value, and a channel busy ratio (CBR) threshold value for a sidelink carrier selection procedure. The wireless device selects one or more first sidelink carriers from the plurality of sidelink carriers. The wireless device determines that the number DTXs on at least one sidelink carrier is equal to the DTX threshold value. Based on the determining, the wireless device triggers the sidelink carrier selection procedure and transmits a message indicating the at least one sidelink carrier. The wireless device selects, during the triggered sidelink carrier selection procedure and based on a CBR being below the CBR threshold value, a third sidelink carrier from the plurality of sidelink carriers. The wireless device transmits, to the second wireless device, a sidelink transport block (TB) via the third sidelink carrier.

Abstract: A system is disclosed in which an item of user equipment (UE) obtains a reference signal received power (RSRP) threshold value for transmitting a random access message (MsgA) comprising both a preamble part and a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission part. The UE obtains information identifying at least one respective offset associated with at least one priority level, and determines a type of random access procedure (two-step or legacy random access procedure) to be performed based on an RSRP measured by the UE, the RSRP threshold value, and a priority level associated with the UE.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a multi-link communication method, an apparatus, and a system that relate to the field of communication technologies, to resolve a technical problem in conventional multi-link communication that an amount of information sent by a multi-link device to a peer multi-link device is large, a process in which the peer multi-link device determines, based on the information, a link that can support simultaneous data sending and receiving as a link that is receiving data is cumbersome, and processing load of the peer multi-link device is heavy. The method includes: generating link grouping information, where the link grouping meets a following characteristic: links belonging to different link groups support simultaneous data sending and receiving; and sending the link grouping information.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring a search space for sidelink communications between one or more sensors/actuators (SAs) and programmable logic controller (PLC) in internet of things (IoT) applications in order to minimize the number of subchannels that a receiver (e.g., PLC or SA) may need to blind decode. More particularly, the search space is configurable based on a hashing function that is based in part on a portion of the resources (e.g., PLC resources) that have been allocated or reserved for sidelink communication within the PLC subnetwork (or PLC group) from the sidelink resource pool available to a plurality of PLCs in a network. By limiting the search space to a subset of resources that are specific to the PLC subnetwork or group, the need for the SA or PLC to perform blind decoding of sidelink control information (SCI) may be further reduced.

Abstract: A V2X event-message dictionary and a binning function are received from a cloud server. Sensor data is compared to events specified in the V2X event-message dictionary to identify a best-fit event for the sensor data. A number of bins and a bin number for the event are computed using the binning function. A V2X message is transmitted including the number of bins and the bin number, thereby avoiding including the sensor data in the V2X message.

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) capable wireless device configured to perform sidelink cellular communications. The wireless device performs sidelink communications using a two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) protocol including Stage 1 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), and Stage 2 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The SCI messaging may be encoded using polar codes. Channel interleaving is utilized on the SCI to interleave the SCI between two or more layers of a MIMO transmission system. Scrambling for Stage 2 SCI messaging is performed based on the result of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) performed on Stage 1 SCI messaging. Collisions between sidelink HARQ feedback to be transmitted to a base station and other transmissions are avoided based on a priority analysis of the sidelink HARQ feedback.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for addressing relation round trip time (RTT) positioning and timing advance (TA) command with user equipment (UE) receive-transmit (Rx-Tx) measurement reporting in wireless network such as in new radio (NR).

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for data transmission in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. In one aspect, a method includes generating a routing table for the IAB network; determining to forward a data packet from a source IAB node to a destination IAB node; and forwarding, based on the generated routing table, the data packet from the source IAB node to the destination IAB node.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information configuration method, an information interaction method, and an address information update method. The information configuration method may be performed by a first node, and may include: transmitting, to a second node, a first configuration request message comprising a request for a bearer context setup; receiving, from the second node, a first configuration response message comprising a response to the bearer context setup request in the first configuration request message; and establishing a bear context based on the first configuration response message, wherein the first configuration request message comprises at least one of information related to data profile, or profile indication information.